The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle Bloomsbury Companions

"Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a wide range of contemporary philosophical discussions. The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle brings together leading scholars from across the world and from a variety of philosophical traditions to survey the recent research on Aristotle's thought and its contributions to the full spectrum of philosophical enquiry, from logic to the natural sciences and psychology, from metaphysics to ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Further essays address aspects of the transmission, preservation, and elaboration of Aristotle's thought in subsequent phases of the history of philosophy (from the Judeo-Arabic reception to debates in Europe and North America), and look forward to potential future directions for the study of his thought. In addition, The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle includes an extensive range of essential reference tools offering assistance to researchers working in the field, including a chronology of recent research, a glossary of key Aristotelian terms with Latin concordances and textual references, and a guide to further reading."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover 1 HalfTitle 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Corpus Aristotelicum 9 List of Contributors 12 INTRODUCTION: PATHS OF INQUIRY 14 Logos 21 Phusis 21 Philosophia Prote 23 Ethos 24 Polis 25 Poiesis 25 Part I: QUESTIONS 30 Logos 32 1 SAYING WHAT ONE SEES, LETTING SEE WHAT ONE SAYS: ARISTOTLE’S RHETORIC AND THE RHETORIC OF THE SOPHISTS 34 Narcissus and Echo 34 Saying What One Sees: Aristotle’s Phenomenology and That of the Sophists 35 Letting See What One Says: Aristotle’s Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of the Sophists 42 Metaphor and Ekphrasis: Two Philosophical Styles 46 2 ARISTOTELIAN DEFINITION: ON THE DISCOVERY OF ARCHAI 54 Definition and the Prouparchousa Gnosis 56 Definition and the Vision of Arche 58 Phusis 70 3 ARISTOTLE ON SENSIBLE OBJECTS: NATURAL THINGS AND BODY 72 Introduction 72 “What is”: Body and Things That Are By Nature 73 Conclusion 80 4 ON ARISTOTLE’S FORMULA . .... .O.: PHYSICS IV.11, 14 88 Saying Time 89 Arithmos 93 Psuche 102 5 MIND IN BODY IN ARISTOTLE 104 Introduction 104 Explanation in Psychology 105 Mind in Body 106 Conclusion 113 6 PHANTASIA IN DE ANIMA 119 Review of Interpretations of De anima Book III 120 The Unity of Perceptive Power (AISTHETIKON) and the Placelessness of Soul 121 Locomotion and Phantasia 124 The Problem of Truth and Falsehood 129 Conclusion 132 7 THE HERMENEUTIC SLUMBER: ARISTOTLE’S REFLECTIONS ON SLEEP1 141 Philosophia Prote 158 8 FIRST PHILOSOPHY 160 The science of the first principles and causes 160 The meanings of “being” 163 Ontology and theology 168 Substance 172 The divine substance 177 9 FIRST PHILOSOPHY, TRUTH, AND THE HISTORY OF BEING IN ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS 186 I 186 II 187 III 190 IV 198 Ethos 202 10 ARISTOTLE ON HUMAN NATURE AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF ETHICS, WITH AN ADDENDUM 204 Williams’ Aristotle 205 The General Strategy 207 The Tradition 210 One Philosophical Precedent: The Philebus 213 The Political Nature of Human Beings 215 The Human Function Argument38 221 Human Nature and Human Limits 228 Internal and External 229 Addendum 231 11 THE VISIBILITY OF GOODNESS 240 1 240 25 241 3 242 4 247 12 TO KAKON POLLACHO ̄S LEGETAI: THE PLURIVOCITY OF THE NOTION OF EVIL IN ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS 254 Introduction 254 Evil “suffered” 256 Evil “acted” 258 Evil as error 261 Evil “acted”: concluding remarks 263 Polis 274 13 EDUCATION: THE ETHICO- POLITICAL ENERGEIA1 276 Introduction: Education and the unity of ethics and politics as one first philosophical inquiry 276 Understanding learning as energeia of an energeia: Physics VII.3 277 Practicing learning as energeia of an energeia: Politics VII–VIII 281 Poiesis 290 14 TOWARD THE SUBLIME CALCULUS OF ARISTOTLE’S POETICS 292 Historical Juxtapositions 292 Pan metron ariston, or Nature Is Believable 297 Part II: Disseminations 308 15 ARISTOTLE ON THE NATURAL DWELLING OF INTELLECT 310 Prologue 310 Reading and Rereading ARISTOTLE Through a Materialist Lens 311 16 THE PERIPATETIC METHOD: WALKING WITH WOODBRIDGE, THINKING WITH ARISTOTLE 324 Preamble 324 Peripatetic Legomenology 325 The Surface of Things 328 A Path Phantastic 331 Postamble 333 17 WHAT REMAINS OF ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS TODAY? 340 Introduction 340 The Formulation of the Problem 341 The Originality of the Solution 344 Final Considerations 347 18 WOULD ARISTOTLE BE A COMMUNITARIAN? 351 1 352 2 353 3 356 GLOSSARY OF ARISTOTELIAN TERMS 361 CHRONOLOGY OF RECENT RESEARCH 397 Textual Criticism 398 History and Historiography 398 Twentieth-Century Philosophy (I) 400 Twentieth-Century Philosophy (II) 401 BIBLIOGRAPHY 405 RESOURCES 417 SOURCES OF TRANSLATED/REPRINTED ESSAYS 421 Index 422 "Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a wide range of contemporary philosophical discussions. The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle brings together leading scholars from across the world and from a variety of philosophical traditions to survey the recent research on Aristotle's thought and its contributions to the full spectrum of philosophical enquiry, from logic to the natural sciences and psychology, from metaphysics to ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Further essays address aspects of the transmission, preservation, and elaboration of Aristotle's thought in subsequent phases of the history of philosophy (from the Judeo-Arabic reception to debates in Europe and North America), and look forward to potential future directions for the study of his thought. In addition, The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle includes an extensive range of essential reference tools offering assistance to researchers working in the field, including a chronology of recent research, a glossary of key Aristotelian terms with Latin concordances and textual references, and a guide to further reading".--page 4 de la couverture